SB0566sam001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr.

Filed: 4/7/2015

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 566

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 566 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Metro East Police District Act is amended by adding Section 70 as follows:

(70 ILCS 1750/70 new)

Sec. 70. Social Media Intelligence Pilot Project.

(a) The General Assembly finds that: (i) violent crimes and street gangs jeopardize the safety of Illinois communities; (ii) there is a critical need for a program that will reduce this violence; and (iii) communities across the State of Illinois, such as the Metro East Area and East St. Louis, have experienced a growth in violent crimes and seek to combat instances of crime. Therefore, the General Assembly finds that in the interest of public safety, police departments must be equipped with new technology and tools to investigate crimes, identify offenders, and predict crimes of violence before they happen.

(b) As used in this Section:

"Legitimate law enforcement purpose" means for the purpose of investigating criminal offenses or violations of federal, State, or local laws or ordinances by a police department.

"Social media intelligence" means electronic mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers and other connected information including use of companies or software such as, but not limited to, PathAR to gather such information.

"Software data" means an algorithm that mathematically combines multiple dimensions to determine relationships, direction, and knowledge regarding past and current activities.

(c) Within 6 months after this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly becomes effective, the Commission shall establish, subject to appropriation, a pilot program that allows the police departments in the District to use social media intelligence software.

(d) The Commission shall adopt rules and policies governing the use of the social media intelligence software. At a minimum, the rules and policies must provide:

(1) that the police departments of the District shall only use social media intelligence software to gather evidence in an investigation and for legitimate law enforcement purposes and shall not allow such software to be used for personal use;

(2) that the police departments of the District must conduct a training course for officers that will use and have access to social media intelligence software and the data obtained from such software; and

(3) for the protection of individual privacy in the collecting, storing, and release of personal information discovered through social media intelligence software.

(e) The following information shall be reported to (i) the Commission by each police department in the District every six months; and (ii) the General Assembly and the Governor by the Commission once every calendar year:

(1) the specific types of offenses discovered using social media intelligence software;

(2) the number of offenses discovered using social media intelligence software;

(3) the number of times social media intelligence software was used; and

(4) the number of times the use of social media intelligence software was successful in providing evidence used to prosecute any person or to solve a crime.

(f) This Section is repealed on January 1, 2018.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2015.".